MOTOR-CYCLE SPORTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 6

MOTOR-CYCLE SPORTS

CHAMPIONSHIP EVENTS GISBORNE AND WAIROA Advice has been received by the Gisborne Sports Club that the New Zealand Auto-Cycle Union has allotted the eight-mile New Zealand open motor cycle championship for 1939 co a Gisborne meeting to be held on Easter Saturday. The second day of the meeting is to .be held in Wairoa on Easter Monday, and another New Zealand championship will 'be allotted for that fixture. Inquiries are being received from New Zealand's foremost riders for full details of the two-day programme undertaken by the Gisborne Sports Club. At the Gisborne meeting, greyhound racing will be featured and it is considered that a recent agreement between the Sports Club and the Gis'borne Greyhound Racing and Coursing Club will enable large fields of dogs to take part in these dog races. National dancing also will be included on the Gisborne programme and from indications it is contemplated that "the motor-cycle championships at the Park Domain on Easter Saturday will represent the largest promotion undertaken by the Sports Club. For the Wairoa meeting the popular Te Kupenga racecourse has been secured from the Wairoa Racing Club and Wairoa residents will have the opportunity of seeing New Zealand champions such as Charlie Buchanan, Norman (Morgan and Harry Falls, Auckland, Bert Tolley and A. Hewson, Wellington, D. Collinson. Palmerston North, and speedsters from Feilding, Frankton Junction, Hamilton, Levin, and the 'Bay of Plenty in action. For the Wairoa meeting the services of New Zealand's "Putt .Mossman," Dick Jeffcoale, have been secured and special dare-devil stunts such as the "leap to death," and "crashing the board wall'' will toe featured. Arrangements concerning a dance to be held in Osier's Hall, Wairoa, in Easter Monday night have been completed, and Stuart Skeet's band has been engaged. The emergency committee controlling the Gisborne and Wairoa fixture have resolved that no right will bp granted any competitor to try out the Gisborne or Waoroa grass tracks, and no application has been made to either of the controlling bodies of the grounds being used, for that privilege.